Fun with Dad in Activities for Young Adults

Do your girls like to play with their dolls and get bored doing the same thing everyday?  Give them a weekend activity with Dad’s help to build their very own dollhouse for themselves.

When building dollhouses, it can be fun and educational for your children. Building dollhouses will give the family time together while dad teaches her to use the creative mind. When working on building a dollhouse teach your child how to manipulate the scissors, sewing needles thread, and drawing devices. Teach her how to use the glue to put the pieces together as you assist her with the project.

By using a large box your daughter can draw on the door and windows, using the scissors to cut the parts out. She can make her own decisions on the window and door shapes.  At what time your daughter cuts the door, cut only at the top and then bottom, cutting one side so it can be opened and shut. Suggest to her that she can add some shutters on the windows and color it with markers. Drawing flowers and a bush or two on the corners to dress the outside up is a great ideal.

Once the outside is done put some carpet down on the bottom using whatever you want.  Use four pieces using different colors to make it look like four rooms. For the curtains on the inside glue along the top of each window and stick a piece of cloth there to hang them up and maybe cut up the center and tie them back to open the curtain gluing the tie back to each side. Add some pictures to the walls by giving them a couple old ones taken at school. The house is finished inside now they are ready to add furniture.

Letting her decide what furniture she wants will encourage decision-making. Let the girls be creative. Your daughter(s) may enjoy gluing Popsicle sticks to cardboard to make the table and chairs; you can also use egg cartons for the chairs and maybe create a table.

Giving the child assistance is great but let them make their own decisions. This will help build their self-esteem and confidence especially when it is finished and they have their playhouse. Remind them to make sure the furniture is large enough for their dolls to sit or lay on. You can even use a small butter bowl for a table by turning it upside down and letting them make a tablecloth to put over it using the needle and thread to sew the hem around the bottom.

Let the girls make their own decisions in designing. Leaving room for decisions will teach them hard work is worth the effort when it is finished.

Once the house is finished, they can learn personal skills. Like setting, the dinner table with doll dishes they have in their toy box. The children will be learning to play together giving them skills to get along and enjoy being with each other. 

Let them ask the little girl next door to come over and they can have a pretend tea party for the dolls, another skill learning to get along with people outside the home.  

Building a dollhouse has given your girls a lot of new knowledge; they have learned to be creative, drawing, coloring with markers, and using scissors. Learning to share the same house, they will learn that getting along with other people outside the home is not so bad after all.

This will show the girls that buying something is not always the thing to do. Having fun is the key here.

This is a nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon with Dad in the garage while your young adults enjoy activities. After school, sports for young adults are something you can consider also.